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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is BBC America’s cure for the common cop show

Call Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency the cure for the common cop show. Based on the 1987 novel by Douglas Adams — the same guy who brought you The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — this cheeky dramedy stars Wood (Wilfred) as lovable loser Todd Brotzman, a bellman who lands in the middle of a bizarre murder investigation helmed by the highly unusual titular character, played by Penny Dreadful’s Samuel Barnett. Blessed with psychic abilities that make him suspect everything is connected — and the people skills of a hyperactive first-grader — Gently also believes he and Brotzman were cosmically destined to […]

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Channel Guide TV critics, staff predict who will die in The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere

Lucille will deliver some devastating heartache on the Season 7 opener of The Walking Dead (Sunday, Oct. 23 at 9/8c on AMC). Fans of the series have been waiting months to find out who got Negan’s bat in the Season 6 cliffhanger. Count us in there, too. The staff at Channel Guide Magazine has been rewinding, freezing, analyzing and discussing that final “eeny, meeny, miney, moe moment.” Here are our predictions of who will die in The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere. Ryan Berenz says it will be Abraham … At the end of the Season 6 finale, my first instinct […]

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Richard Armitage Calls His New EPIX Series Berlin Station a “Post-Technology Drama”

“I think Richard Burton in [The Spy Who Came in From the Cold] was one of the benchmark performances for me,” Berlin Station star Richard Armitage says as we sit and chat at the Beverly Hilton during a recent television critics press tour. We’re talking old-school Cold War spy thrillers with the actor, famed for his roles in The Hobbit movies and in the Hannibal TV series. “It’s such a sparse film,” Armitage continues. “It’s so interesting, when you talk about action, what we’ve become used to — because, of course, there are brilliant movies like the Bourne films — but when […]

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Empire Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: Different Worlds

Andre might have just lost his wife in a tragic accident, but I think new sparks are flying between him and Nessa on this episode of Empire. Never would’ve expected that one. Maybe Andre is just the thing Lucious needs to help win over Nessa now that he has to compete for her. Jamal is persistent on working things out with Freda. I’m not sure if he’s trying to visit her to get over his PTSD or if he wants to repair their relationship but I know I wouldn’t have the strength to visit the person who shot me. Ouch! […]

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The Walking Dead: Negan’s Bat Has Swung. Are We Ready For What’s Next?

The Walking Dead Season 7 premieres Sunday, Oct. 23 on AMC Has there ever been a cliffhanger as agonizing as this, Dead heads? Though it’s been months since The Walking Dead’s harrowing Season 6 finale, odds are good you’ve replayed its final moments over and over in your head, trying to figure out who. Who got Negan’s bat? Well, the wait is almost over and Dead’s executive producer/director/SFX guru Greg Nicotero deeply understands our suffering — because he shares it. “Our biggest challenge is you knew it was coming ever since Issue 100,” he said during a press conference with […]

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Empire Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: How to be a Lyon

In tonight’s episode of Empire, Lucious is worried that his new brilliant idea, Empire X Stream, will make him lose money in the end. He needs exclusive songs fast and it doesn’t seem like Jamal is ready for recording any time soon. So what does Lucious do? Go against Jamal and try to release his Black and White album that Jamal didn’t want released. At least Andre isn’t in jail. With the press swarming around the police department, Andre is coached to hide himself and not “go all Black Lives Matter” on the crowd. What kind of a lawyer/friend says […]

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Shameless Season 7, Series Premiere – “Hiraeth”

  Thankfully Showtime has lessened our wait time to see the fate of what happened to Frank Gallagher in the Season 6 finale. They were even more generous by airing it early in the week on certain social media platforms. So let’s dive into the Shameless Season 7, Series Premiere – “Hiraeth.” Frank: We start of seeing Frank floating in a black abyss of water with his life flashing before him in a disturbing montage of his family members and all his vices. He wakes to find himself in a hospital by the arousal of the nurse cleaning his manhood. The nurse on […]